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Show OLD AGE CONTINUEs'tO BE DOWNFALL OF MANY felNG B ATTLERS ED GREN J JESS WILLARD " IS EXAMPLE . OFEASE Britton, Wilde, , Kilbane v anJ Others Lose Out in Ring By Robert Edgren No, they never eeme back whan they're teo old to ama back. Jess Willard thought ho wasn't too old. "but Jets had slipped a few year. Ha had All tha heart and confidence -he needed tit hla fight with Flrpa lYr the first time In hit? life WIU lard fought In a style that' grave htm '.The full advantage of his strength , and beef. If ha had fought In the aama way a few years ago no man living : could have stood up against htm. , He went after Flrpo and stuck to A him. When Plrpo landed terrific , blows, as ha did every now a.id then. Willard came right hack fighting and taking- tha aggreaalva again before Flrpo had any chance to follow up hi momentary advan tage. " Ha had Flrpo more or less huf-- huf-- faloed, and at times ha had Flrpo army weary and discouraged for a moment If Willard had poaaeased youth, the ana great set asset of a fighting man, . ha would have whipped Flrpo. The advan fare of youth In a fight never was shown better than In one - of the preliminaries to the Flrpo-, Flrpo-, Willard battle, the eight-round fight between Tiny Herman of Omaha and Cliff Kramer of Call for- . Bit Hermaa Is fast and a terrific , puncher. He hammered Kramer . with everything early In the fight, and kept It up until the battle was . half over. Everyone wondered what was holding Kramer up. He . acsmed to be dono for. YOUTH GUTS , CMUKO. The suddenly Kramar got the ttmtng of Herman's right hand punch, mads his in las by Inchaj and atepped In with the snorteat hent right arm punch that er knocked a man down. Herman struck the S floor en hla stomach and rolled around until tha referee, rattled. ' raught him by the arm and dragged him te hla feet. - That waa a funny one for a refer ref-er s te pull, snd let a fight go on! Again Herman rushed and swung St Kramer, and again Kramer made Mm mtse and countered with a f short arm right for another knockdown. knock-down. From that lime en Kramer freshened, whll Hermaa loat aoma ef hla .need aad puaca. Teuth was Jimmy Wilde, at tils hast, which waa several year. age. should have had St leaet an .van chance to whip paneh. VI. la- Jimmy, In the first twa ronnda was uaable te get go Ing faat eneugh to land a damaging damag-ing punch, wall Villa leaded many ef them. Villa knocked Wilde cold with a foul blew delivered after the ball at the and of the ascend round, and Kaferee Pataey Haley must have fceea looking the crowd over after the bell rang, for ha didn't disqualify disqual-ify Villa But avea without th aid of that foul blow and many backhand blow that Hairy allow Villa to una Villa could hnva baatan Wild handily. Ara R4 "a-rabbgd Jimmy Jim-my I Ha waa too alow ta lgTai m, man of Villa's bpae-d. Tha pair.o thlna; dnflatl Jfolinny Kllbara earar. Crlaul might haa whlptjed Kllbana at hta bat. blut whipping old KUbdn waa a alnr-h for tha flahtlnaj rranehman. Kllhana wavg ajluad ta tha floor. Fa did nt dara mova for foar of . leaving aa oponlnf. and ha hnaw ha wag tno glow ta black or counter. , Bnt Kllbana , waa Judleloua. Ha - didn't tak any mora of a baaUnf thaa ho had to. RrTHTON LACK VIM AND VIGOR. Jack BHttori, lotrlnr tha w1tr-weight w1tr-weight tltla to Mickey Walkar. fought a far aa hid aklU and gtrarurth would lot him. a tailed arvd atruaglad along to Par tha Dnlah, and gathered what ha had left for a final effort to knock - Walkar out, keeping up Ma attack ntll hla lra gav way undor him and flaundaiina Into a cllneh ta ptall tarough tha laat wtlnuta whan ha oould wa fOryar lift hla hand a Brlttoa waa aa aama aa any nut 11 ring. But age finally got him. Bob Fltiaimrrvorrg waa fl(htlnff until un-til ha waa H yaara aid, whin ha fought hli laat real ring battlg In AuatraJla again at Bill Langa. Ftta waa -knocked out. "Whan a man Hh a Lang raa boat ma I'm through aald flta. guana I'm gttlrg oU u An old tlma fighter can't at and tha amount af training that file a young--atr for a flfht. Joffrlaa. who trainad a Ions tlma to flfht Johnaon aftar lng out of tha ring ats yaara. waa - tn much bat tar aha pa all waekg bafora ' tha fight than a weak bfor It. Jack Johnamt, a wlaa aid fallow la ni that hag to da wltk tha Una, didn't Train vary hard for hla fight with ivuiard t Havana, t aakod Johnaon whv ha didn't do mora boalng' la hid training quartar. "I'm getting old. bald Jack, "an X can't atand tha training 1 uacd io n. It would uaa up too much vital-I'y,' vital-I'y,' I'M navor ba aa food again aa T wa at ftano. All I can do la to jtt Inta th beat ahapa I caa aad rp aa much vitality aa I can, ba tan I'M nee-d It In tha ring." Willard uee-d tha aama ayetera train-In train-In a for Ptrpo. But Flrpo worked Ilk a horao and wanted to do mora than TePofToat would let him do. That was youth la actios. VIU pleniy of reeerv. Tommy Olboona had sll tha shin of an old timer whn ha fought Domp-y Domp-y at l-heibr. Hut ha didn't have a punch that could Jar Jack. I 1'oaatbly Jack la loamg a llttla of 1 tha tramendoua t&rlv h put Into hie hiowg before ha waa champion. He lin t old yet, hut a man age faater when he kpa out of compatltlott than when haa fighting all tha time. Johnny Dundee s . rr la aim oat proof af that. WILL UACKft i teo, Harry Wllhi hag boon solnc hack noticeably for tha paat thro yaara. Ha -haa boon fighting a long time, and hie laat three or four flghtg. with poor eecond ratare plchod to give him aaay knockout ana advertlea him for a fight with Damoaay, ware vary aloppy. Ha had no apood. New ha haa bean loafing far a year ao far aa -the rtnc concerned, and Jack Xaarna may bo right whn ha aays age haa grabbed Willi and ha would ba aaay picking for tha champion. cham-pion. Many of the old time re were baatan hy age. John L. ffulltvaa waa an old wrack at New Orhaana. Paler Jack-eon Jack-eon was ad far gone whan young Jim Jeffrie beat him at Pan Franclaco that Jim aakad the refer- to atoe the bout and refuad to hit helpleaa aid Pater the ana punch mora needed for a knockout. Willard came nearer than any other old timer to working hla way back to a champfortahlp fight, and whan vn WUlard. with hta tramendoua bulk and b'a naturally gned condition, failed, there's llttla chanr for others ta com back when o 4 Fsfhar Time has once acrchad en their shouMora. Fighting (a a yoong man a game. 4 p right. 12. hv Tha Bell Cya-dicate Cya-dicate Ibc |
